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WEDNESDAY, May IS, 1887.
ARRIVED YESTERDAY.

AhfINED hfo NlhUAl.
Steamship Tallahassee, Fisher, New York-C
G Anderson, Agent.
Steamship Dessoug, Howes, Philadelphia
G Anderson, Agent
Bark Altamaha, Pray, Philadelphia, with coal
to G l Taggart; vessel to Jas X Clarke & Co.
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VEGETABLEs-By Steam-(By special contract
To New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Balti-
more, standard crates, 20c; barrels, 40c. With
out the contract, crates, 35c; barrels, 75c
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MACHINERY.
Cheap and Good and Easy Terms.

4 LIGHTHOUSE POWER HORIZONTAL
4 FIRE BOX BOILERS new
Fifteen Horse Power (second-han0 Return
Tubular Boiler.
Fifty-Horse Power new Return Tubular
Boiler.
2Thirty- Horse Power new Return Tubular
Boilers
Twenty-fve-Horse Power new Return
Tubular Boiler.
2 Twelve Horse Power Horizontal Centre
Crank Engines, en- slls new.
Eighth Horse Power Horizontal Side Crank
Engines. on sills new.
Eight Horse Power Second -hand) Horizontal
Side Crank Engine. on wheels.
Six-Horse Power Horizontal Side Crank En-
gines Oil wheels new.
2 Six Horse Power Horizontal Side Crank En-
gines on sills new
Also Circular Saw Mills, Saws, Betting, Pipe
and Fittings, Brass Goods, Inspirators, etc. Ad-
dress
SchOfield'S Iron Works,
MACON, GEORGIA.
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New Orleans Pa

LIVERPOOL May II, decentralization
ing tendency; middling upiands sgd, middliDg
Orleans sgd: sales 1900 bales, for speculation
American 400.
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SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

MINIATURE ALNlANAC-THIS DAY.
Sun RISES ............ ........-. .5;03
DUN sO.4J
HIGH WATER AT SAVANNAH. ......4 ;52 AM SOS pm
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HAY-Market steady, with fair demand;
stock ample. We quote job lots: western, 81;
carload lots, SOC; Eastern, none; Northern,
HIDES, woop, Erc.-Hides+ Market dull. re.
ceipts light; dry flint. 1870; sailed, 11lSc dry
butcher, GIG Wool-Market nominal prime
In bales, 21Sc; bury, 10@15c. Wax, 1sc- Tai
f 6s. sS4c Deer skins flint. soc; sailed, l6c.
.. 1RoN-Market firm; swede, 460sc; refined,
LARp-Market is steady; in ticrces, NC; 5OD
LIME CA1cNrD PLASTER AND cExEsr-Ala-
bama lump lime is in fair demand and is selling
at 81 80 per barrel; Georgia, 80; calcined plas-
p . Per 5asrei hair Sc Rosendale cement
LIeUoRs-Full stock; steady demand Bour-
bon, VI 5005 so; rye, 81 5o@6 90; rectif1ed,
81 OOSl IS. Ales unchanged and in good de-
NAIIsaMsrket firm, Fair demand We
81 IS; 1od to God, So 80 per key.
1ss Aan%ts aTc5g Is@c siyca
cans, loc; Brazil, 10c; flberts, nc; cocoanuts,
Baracoa, S. 25 per 100.
.ons-Market, firm; demand good. Signal,
45c; West Virginia black, 9@10c lard, Sc;
headlight, 15c; kerosene, 10c; water white,
1870; neatsfoot, 65@90c; machinery, 25@30c;
linseed, raw, 45c; boiled, 4Sc; mineral seal, 16c;
freproof, 1Sc; homelght, 1Sc.
ONIoNs-Bermuda crates, So 256S2 so.
PoTAroEs-Very scarce. Northern, So 7503 90
per barrel; new. SO 0o@5 90; crates, 81 256l1 rs.
PEAs-Demand light; COW peas, mixed, 700
soc; clay, 81 GOAL IS; speckled, 81 00@1 10;
black eye, 81 25@1 so; white crowder, 81 500
IT'S.
PRIMES Turkish SIC; French, &c.
RAIsINs-Demand light; market steady; loose
new Muscatel, Sc co.; layers So 90 per box; Lon
don layers 50 % per box.
SHoT-Drop, ST. 40; buck, 81 65.
SALT-The demand is moderate and the mar
ket quiet; carload lots, 65c. b; job lots,
60090c
SueARs-The market is dull; cut loaf, csc;
standard A, 61Sc; extra c. 511c; G yellow, &c;
granulated SIC; powdered, 69Sc.
SYRUP-Florida and Georgia Syrlps 3S6H40c;
the market is quiet for sugarhouse at IS G140c;
Cuba straight goods, 2Sc in hogsheads; sugar
house molasses 20c
ToBAcco-Market dull demand moderate.
We quote; Smoking, 25c@$1 25; chewing, COM
mon, sound, 25030c; fair, 306l35c; medium, $50
Soc; bright, 506l75c; fine fancy, $4,000; extra
fine, 90c@S1 10; bright navies, 45075c; dark
navies, 40@50c.
LuMBERSThe demand from the West contin-
ues good; coastwise and foreign inquiry is also
fairly active. Prices for average schedules are
firm at quotations, with some advance, while
difficult schedules can only be placed at con-
siderably advanced prices. We quote:
Ordinary sizes. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. S13 SOAR 90
DlIlculJ sizes UOD2l %
Fioor1ng boards. 10 00120 on
T1MBER-Market dull and nominal. We
quote:
zoo zoo feet average. ................s9 oo@11 90
800 Sc 6 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 10 00@11 90
900 {" t Observation-Disclosures. II OO6112 90
1000 /" -" ................... II 0OG14 90
Shipping timber in the raft
60O feet average ..................S 8 600 Z 90
6S0U0 :. :. ....'.....'........ 00(9 W
Mill timber 81 below these figures.
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Sentine was firm and higher The sales for the
-ay were 200 casks at 3111c for regulars.
ID the Board of Trade on the opening call
be market was reported firm at Sligo bid for
egulars At the closing call it was firm at
dszc for regulars. Rosin-The market was
<uiet but firm and unchanged. The sales for
be day were about $40 barrels. At the Board
d Trade on the first call the market was
Exported firm, with sales of 800 barrels, at the
Blowing quotations: A, B, c and D 81 05, E
j 10, F 81 is. G 81 20, H 81 IS, 81 45 K
so, NJ 81 80, So 10, window glass So so,
later white 81 IS. At the closing call it was
5nchanged
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|ith So
by.
stand
Linutes|
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Some Memorable Railway Disasters.

Only two other railway disasters in
this country begin TO parallel that near
Chattsworth--one at Campbell, Tenn,
July II, 1856, the result of collision,
and the other at Ashtabula, Ohio, De-
cember 30, 1876, when bridge gave way
over creek. A hundred or more lives
were lost on both occasions. Greater
havoc, however, was wrought near Guam
tia, Mexico, June "a, 1881, when the fall
of bridge destroyed nearly 200 lives !;
and near Tcherny QGC miles west Of
Moscow,) Russia, July 10, 1882, where,
by derailment, lis passengers were
killed, and the remaining thirty.nine on
the train were all injured. Indeed, as
one comes down the scale he still finds
most of the worst accidents Of this class
occurring abroad. BY that at st.
Hilaire. Canada, where the train ran cfi
bridge, eighty.three were killed and
200 wounded, June 30, 1861; seventy,
four persons perished when the Tay
Bridge, near Dundee, Scotland, was
blown with railway train into the river.
December 2S, 1879; thirty.four deaths
ensued and seventy persons were hurt by
the breaking of a carriage tire on the
Great Western, at Shipton, England,
December 2-i, 1874 fifteen were killed
and 100 injured by the Winchburg col
lision, between Edinburgh and Glasgow,
October 13, 1862; sixteen killed and 32O
injured at Kentish Town Hampstead
Junction), England, September 2, 1861; i;
twenty three killed and 17G injured two
weeks before by the Clayton Tunnel col
lision OH the London and Brighton road,
and 200 were hurt by the Kirby collision,
on the Liverpool and Blackpool road,
June u, 1857.
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Tie Sea ;ictpeni, al iasi.

The sea serpent mystery has been
solved for Maine. He was seen recently
from the vessel of Capt. G. IT. Griffin,
who l,arpoonc'l him, and the ship was
carried over the seas at rate OF speed
that would excel the Ioi"nfrrr. But
after q few hours the animal became
exhausted and rose 10 the surface,
revealing its identity as an immense tur-
tie. When it was hoisted on shore it was
weighed and tipped 1,430 pounds. A
vessel containing ten Southern turtles
was wrecked in Maine waters about fifty
years ago, and this is supposed to be one
of them and accounts for the many sea
serpent stories that have originated in
the Statc.-,SprinGfeM Republican.
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= The Abbevlle Medium says
"Quite sensation was created Monday
afternoon by family of five being near
" drowned trying to cross the creek in
Fort Pickens. Moses Bell, a colored
man, was returning from Hodges 10 his
home in Lowndesville, and although the
water was so wide, he thought it best to
cross and get TO town before it rained
harder. When he reached the middle oil
the stream the current was too swift for
the mules and the wagon was turned
clear around. Nose cut the harness and
then tried 10 swim out with his little
girl, but both went under several times.
The child caught ON limb and held on
until assistance came. The father after
being carried almost to the culvert in the
railroad track, caught to a tree and pulled
himself to higher land, but even then he
was in water up to his neck. BY this
time large crowd of people had collect
ed on the track consisting mostly of ne
groes, but no one seemed willing TO ven
ture in. J. S. Hammond and j. c.
Douglass, rescued the sinking parties by
swimming in for them, and deserve a
great deal of credit. If they had not
been there the poor people would have
drowned"
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Released by a hob.

W1ScI1EsrER, VA, August ia
message from Woodstock, Va, says
United States Senator Riddleberger who
was yesterday sentenced by Judge New.
man, of the County Court, 10 pay a fine
of twenty. five dollars and be imprisoned
for FIVE days for contempt of Court, was
released from Jail last night by mob.
The taller made but slight resistance.
The circumstances leading up TO the
arrest of Riddleberger are related as fol-
lows by an eye witness:
On Thursday w. w. Jones was tried
for larceny and the jury found that he
was insane. Jones was client of Rid.
dlebergers, aud the verdict made the
Senator angry. He was accused of writ
ing a placard and giving boy two dol
lars to haul Jones up and down the town,
displaying a placard meanwhile which
the latter had witten on it. Verdict,
Bill Jones not guilty, but insane, jury
insane, lawyers insane, Court insane, in
the main." The noise occasioned by this
display disturbed the proceedings of the
Court, and the Commonwealth's attor-
ney, j. G. Baker, had the Judge issue
an order for the arrest of Riddlebergcr,
to appear before Judge Newman and
show cause why he (Riddleberger) should
not be fined and imprisoned for ridiculing
the Judge and jury and disturbing the
Court.
At S o'clock Riddleberger appeared
before the Court and defended himself.
He said that Judge Newman had 10
jurisdiction in the case, which the Judge
denied, and asked Senator Riddleberger
to sit down until the evidence could be
taken to prove that he (thc senator) was
the one who instigated the ridicule and
then, he said, the Court would hear
argument. Riddleberger would not sit
down, and the Court fined him $25. He
then defed the Court, and said: "This
Court shall not send me to Jail. Judge
Newman then told the sheriff to take the
Senator to jail for five days. Senator
Riddleberger said he would like 10 see
the man who could take him to Jail, and
Sheriff Whitman at once arrested the
Senator aud locked him up. This action
caused much excitement, and this morn.
ing at 2 o'clock n mob of one hundred
men, supposed to be from Edinburg, in
this county, scaled the walls of the Jail
yard and took the Senator out on lad.
dcrs. Riddlcberger is on the street at
this writing.
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A Kentucky Scandal.

LOUISVILLE, August 12.-Dr. L. d.
Standiford, ex.president of the Louis
vile and Nashville railroad, and reputcd
to be the richest man in Kentucky, has
not been dead three weeks and the fight
over his property has already begun.
He left no will, and under kentucky law
onelhira of The personality aud life
interest in third of the realty would 60
to his wife, and the remainder in equal
shares to his seven children. Her share
would amount 10 s750,000. His wife,
formerly Miss Scott, at his death on July
2G, was bride Of nineteen days, and
Murray Kellar, husband Of his favorite
daughter, is making vigorous protest
against giving up to her so large a share
of the property. 1t was published the
day after DR.. Standlord's death that
Mrs. Standiford during his last hours
was excluded from his room and that his
last murmurs were directions for divis.
ion of his property % favor Mrs. Kellar.
To-day this is supplemented by a publ,
cation in substance as follows: DIR.
Standiford was lured into an engagement
through filtration begun at the opera,
and entered at once upon a drunken
stupor which continued till after his
marriage, and when the ceremony was
performed was not in his right mind.
Upon this ground suit to annul the mar
ridge will shortly be instituted.
Dr. Standiford was, it is reported, un.
willing to marry Miss Scott, and on The
day of the wedding wanted her to accept
$50, 900 check and break off the match.
The night before, it is alleged, he had
offered a lady here 100000 to marry
him and save him from The approaching
wedding. His friends demonstrated at
the ceremony that he was not in his
right mind, and Miss Scott and her par
ents were warned, but with their minister
persisted in carrying through the cere-
mony. 1t is generally believed the pub.
lication is inspired by Mr.. Kellar, once
general manager of the Louisville, New
Albany and Chicago Road, but of late a
ward politician and man of leisure.
On the other hand, DIR. Stamford, while
sober, told gentlemen here week before
his wedding that he was going to marry
Miss Scott, and that she was the peer of
any woman in Kentucky. She was also
kindly received as his wife by the family,
including the Kellars, who were living
with DIR. Standiford at the time of his
marriage. a few days ago M. Kellar
and his family moved next door to the
house of his brother.in.law, James G..
Caldwell, president of the birmingham
Rolling Mills, and yesterday Mrs. Stan
diford left for Paducah and the Stand.
ford mansion was closed.
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raE rnoH1si1r1oN ELEorIoN.
The prohibitionists have been bad

The: prohibitionists have been badly
defeated in this County, as appears from
the tabular statement published below.
The result has been accepted by them
in good temper, and although the major
sitys j. large, they find nothing particu-
larly discouraging in the result, for it
has been attained by the colored vote,
and by irregularities in the registration,
growing out of the laxity of the registra.
ton clause of the Act. Many negroes
under age are believed to have registered,
and many disqualified by crime have
also been voted. The full white vote
was not registered. The .prohibi-
tionists admit that 2900 negroes were
registered, while the prohibitionists
think the number was fully 2500-2SO0.
There are from 1900 1000 colored voters
registered under the State registration,
and there we're certainly, we think, not
more than two-thirds of thevote regis
! tered. We are satisfied thera were fully
24oo negro votes cast on last Tuesday,
Of which the prohibitionist, from the best
reports we can obtain, did not poll over
100 or 200 at ztho outside. There we're
5S9s votes polled, Of which, by this count,
there were ooO;whites. Thus it will be
seen. that the vote with the white voters
was close, giving small majority to the
prohibisionists Of from rs to 800 votes.
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-lhysicians in New York feel some
alarm at the increasing number young
women who indulge to great extent in
deadly stimulants and narcotics like
chloral or opium. Both here and in
England cher drops are as much part
of fashionable married woman's toilet
as her cologne bottle, and are used with
as much freedom as men employ in call
ing for cocktails at the club, "with a dash
of ahsinthe.n
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that spalks i.on li,e Special train d, lls
superintendent Of bridges, the last train
before the fated excursion, kindled in
the grass near the culyert and burned
slowly for long time and finally fired
the cIllVcrt.
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.GpeeDVile Female College,
GREENVlLLE, S. C.
THE rhirly-thira Session hrsins wEDNEs-

THE Thrty-third Session hcsins WEDNES-
DAY, SEPT. 81, 1887.
FACuLTY-A. S. Towncs, President, English,
Latin, Mental and Moral Science; Miss Mary C..
Ju,lson Lady Principal, Logic, Physical Sciences,
EioclItion and Caislhcnics; Miss Caroline y.
DAWSON French, Mathematics, and History; Miss
Bessie Basby English, Latin, and Mathematics ;
Miss Lucy Il. lloyt, Composition. Latin, and Eng,
lish; Prof.. W. i. Watson, QProf. of Chem. and
Phys. in Fur. University Special Lecturer on
Physics and Chemistry Prof J: NJ. Perry, Pen
manship and bookkeeping; Miss +. q. BiIb,
Principal of Academic Department; Miss Julia
Lidc, First Assistant; Miss Ida !. Wells, Second
Assistant; Miss Maggie q. Griffith, Principal Pr-
mary Department
MUSIC NT-(CoSsEIyAToRY OF
Muslc.)-#Mrs. NJ. G. DcCamps Principal, Theory
of Music, Harmony, NOcalzation, Piano Forte,
Guitar Organ, and Violin; Miss lsebccca Douthlt,
Piano, Theory Of Music, and Thorough Bass !;
Miss Daisy Putnam, Piano and Rudimenls OF Mu.
sic; Miss Leila y. Poorc. Piano, and Rudiments OF
Music.
DEPARTMENT OF AIT-Miss Helen. L.
Platt Graduate Of Chicago Institute), Principal.
Miss i. G. Bbb, Lady Principal Of the Boarding
Department Mrs. NJ. VI. .yncs Matron.
@Proi, NJ. Il. DcCamrs, in consequence Of failure
in health has been compelled to retire Qcmpora-
r!ly only il is hopcd) from teaching.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
IN All persons having demands against
The Estate Of Lent Hall, deceased,
are hereby notified 10 present them,
properly proven, TO the undersigned within
illc time prescribed by law, and all per-
sons indebted to said Estate must make
payment.
z. c. HALL, Admir-.
Aun,,si Is 1857 q 3
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August Is, 1857

TXECUToR's NOTICE.
.E All persons having demands against
the Estate of Elizabeth Nally. deceased, are
hereby notified to present them, properly
probatcd, to the undersigned within the
time prescribed by law, and all persons in
debted are notified to make payment
to the undersigned.
FLORENCE BRIDGES, Ex'x.
August Is, 1851 u j
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WoFF0RD COLLEGE,
CuortonhIIrn. &. G..

las. IL. CARLISLE, LID, President.
q Seven Professors, with corresponding
chairs of instruction. Fall Session begins
Oct. 1sl, 1857. For catalogue address
j. 4. GAMEWELL,
Sec of Faculty.
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SCHOOL NOTICE.
TO cREnITOEs.

MRS. G.. K. MllkHAN'S School will
Nl open on the 9Th of September.
Auullst is. 1SS1 u )
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A. S. T0WNES,
President.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
IN All persons having demands against
the Estate of Jas. A. Sadler, deceased, are
hereby notified to present them, properly
proven, to the undersigned within The time
prescribed b.. law, and those indebted to
make payment.
August 10, 1887 .
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CORPORATION Notice,

A PPLICATION has been made to the
IN Clerk of Anderson County, S. c., for
the incorporation Of the WILLIAMSON
HIGH SCHOOL COMPANY, according
to the laws Of South Carolina.
G.. w. SULLIVAN, President.
!. NJ. LANDER, Clerk.
August Is, 1857 d
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IMPORTANT COMMUNICATION.
CLEARING SALE OF DRY GOODS!
CLOSING OUT ODDS and ENDS!


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TILE GREESy1LlE rENALE COLLEGE re

TIE GREENvILLE FEMALE COLLEGE reg
istcrcd :35 pupils last year.
For the best and most practical advantages OF
education TO the daughters Of the New South,
Greenyllc ranks first. Church and sunday School
privileges are of unusual excellence, exercising
upon tic hearts of young girls such influences rs
will br of more value to them than all other train
ing. They are excluded from society while pur-
suin. their studies, and have intellectually rare
privileges of culture. I'm health, too, Greenville
stands without Il rival.
Its Musical and Art advantages arc second only
to those in large cities. Correspondence solicited
Terms quite reasonable. Special rates TO daugli-
tcrs of ministers of the Gospel.
Send for the New Catalogue.
A. S. TONNES,
President.
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LAND FOR SALE.

rrHE undersigned will sell on saleday in
i November next, at Anderson, S. c.,
if not sold at private sale before that day,
155 acres of Land situated in Hopcwell
Township, on Bcaverdam Creek, known as
part Of the Moorhead tract. TERMs-One:
third cash, balance on credit Of one and
two years, in two equal instruments, with
interest at per cent.
ANDREW HARRIS.
Aucnst is. 1887 6 81
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WILHITE g. WILHITE.
Due West Female College,
Due West, AbbeviIIe, Co., S. c.

Twenty-Seventh Year.
"Opens FIRST MONDAY IN OCTO-
" Der. First-class teachers. Course
thorough and standard high. Rooms COM
fortably furnished. Special attention Civ
en- to Music. Art Depa rtment an attrac.
ton. Pupils made 10 feel at home. Moral
tone of the school good. Board aud regu.
lar tuition, including Latin, Sl65 for the
year. For Catalogue, giving full partcu-
lars, apply to the Principals,
MRS. L. M. BONNER,
H. e. BONNER.
July IA, 1887 s
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WOFFORD FITTING SCHOOL.

Four large brick buildings. Boys are
prepared for College. Separate business
course. Board in institution SO q month.
For further information apply to
A. G. REMBERT,
Head Master.
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No sooner had the wreck occurred than
a scene of robbery commenced. Some
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He favored the Times correspondent
with the following:
"The incendiary theory has no founda.
ton whatevsr. l am unable personally
to find any citizen of Chattsworth who
have seen suspicious characters lettering
about as suggested by that theory. The
flames Of the burning culyert were
plainly seen from Chattsworth at inter.
walls for several hours before the accident
From the lay of land they must have
risen FIVE or six feet above the track to
have been seen SO far. It's plain that an
attempt had been made 10 protect the
bridges of the road from fire, but personal
inspection of other culverts in that
vicinity shows it was not done so as to
afford complete protection. Personal
inspection along the line of the road fol
several miles shows that the grass and
weeds were not all burned of, but many
patches were left unburned, and in the
immediate vicinity it was more carelessly
done 'n.n elsewhere. The culvert itself
was the usual build and abundant
strength to carry the train, but for the
fire which had destroyed the lower por-
tion."
He added that he thought it probable
that the fire left by the section men late
in the afternoon, who, by their own testi-
mony, admitted that there was burning
grass only forty rods away, was driven to
the culvert when they left, by q slight
change of wind. Otherwise it is possible
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August is, 1857